State control and supervision in the medical activity sphere (administrative-legal and administrative-procedural aspects)

Abstract

The article examines the administrative-legal and administrative-procedural aspects of state control and supervision activities in the field of health care. The aim of the work is to analyze legislative innovations that reflect a new approach to state control (supervision). The tasks of the work are to consider the features of the legislation regulating state control (supervision) in the field of medical activities, as well as the specifics of the organizational activities of authorized bodies and organizations in the field of control and supervisory medical activities. The work is characterized by the use, along with standard methods of analysis, heuristics and axiology, a statistical method to illustrate the effectiveness of control and supervisory activities. The results of the work are the conclusion that control and surveillance activities in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic should move away from a formal approach due to the fact that massive restrictions on the activities of business entities in their totality cause damage comparable to the damage from the pandemic itself. Therefore, in each specific case, it is necessary to find out what unfavorable consequences in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare the identified violations may lead, and not be guided by a formal approach. Although the statistics of the volume of inspections in the country as a whole has significantly decreased by almost 80%, in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare, the volume of inspections does not correlate with the general figures of the dynamics of control and supervision activities. There is an obvious explanation for this, associated with anti-pandemic measures in the country as a whole.